34 



The Professor is not conducting any experiments on tuber- 

 culosis at present. 



The government do not condemn the meat of all reacting 

 animals, only when the di-sease is generalized, but they cause 

 it all to be boiled and sold as tuberculous meat, and we were 

 shown a photograph of crowds of people waiting the opening 

 of the store to buy it. There is a good deal of testing done in 

 Germany. It is not, however, obligatory, but voluntary. 



In Saxony a law has just been passed making testing com- 

 pulsory and providing for ^ indemnity. 



On my visit to the Imperial Health Office at Berlin, 

 the Bacteriologist informed me that he had inoculated 

 250 guinea pigs by peritoneal injections with butter bacilli, 

 cultivated from butter made from the milk of tuberculous 

 cows, without any knowledge as to the clinical condition of 

 the cattle ; with positive results in every one of them. The 

 Bacteriologist was not prepared to say whether or not milk 

 from tuberculous cows in which the udder was healthy, was 

 infective. 



Asked his opinion of the relation of chickem tuberculosis to 

 bovine and human, he replied that he thought they were kin- 

 dred but not identical, though intercommunicable ; for instance, 

 he said, in Boerland, South Africa, tuberculosis is very common 

 in chickens, but rare in cattle, in fact till two tuberculosis bulls 

 were imported some years ago, they knew nothing practically 

 of this disease in cattle : they actually have no name for it. 



He had heard of oxituberculin^ but could not say anything 

 about it. 



Observing the large number of guinea pigs, young and old, 

 which seemed in thriving condition, I inquired as to whether 

 or not they had any trouble in rearing and keeping them. He 

 replied that they have no difficulty whatever. They have 

 never seen them die from infective diarrhoea or tuberculosis, 

 as is often seen in laboratories elsewhere. 



They keep them somewhat crowded in cages. They are fed 

 on cabbage, turnips, carrots or any fresh vegetables in the 



